“Go back to your country.” At least once a day, some random male voice called out a smart aleck comment or slur to either me or my wife. There were times I knew something wicked had been spoken, but since it was said in Cebuano, I didn’t know just what. The controlled look on wifey’s…
What is wrong with this picture? answer: This disabled truck driver has placed his emergency triangles in the wrong position. Click here The triangles are too close together to warn approaching vehicles. Below is a more fit distance of triangle placement: 10, 100, and 200 feet. Even this diagram is misleading, or incomplete. Many…
Rolling westbound on a major highway at night, with my high beams on. I was passed by a state trooper. Normally, I flick off the high beams when I’m overtaken at night. This time I didn’t, forgetting that they were on. The trooper hit his blues, brake lights flaring. The trooper pulled me over. His…
Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia, 2017.
This is an “as-told-to”: The nearly-real time chronicle of a first-time truck owner. Keep in mind that this is all said from a general point of view. Simply to give you an idea of what owning a truck is really like. Some of the numbers aren’t accurate but ballpark figures. It’s just to give the…
Spur of the moment purchase: These cookies, or biscuits, are known as mini palmiers. Pronounced, “PAH-mee-eh.” The palmiers pictured are ordinary Kroger bakery products. They are juuust sweet enough. Not quite a cookie. Not quite a cracker. Not quite a biscuit. What are we dealing with here? Coconut palmiers are probably what you’re familiar with….
Why do so many shipping and receiving yards care if you slide your tandem wheels? When driving a big truck with trailer into a shipping/receiving yard, in my trucking tenure I estimated that about a third of them required you to slide your trailer’s tandem wheels all the way to the doors. This was usually…
Bridges I done seen… Dumb car tricks Slip-seat trucking